The Impact of an Epidemic: Experimental Evidence on Preference Stability from Wuhan

We examine how the outbreak of COVID-19 virus in Hubei province China impacted pro-social behavior and attitudes toward risk uncertainty. The study repeatedly applies a panel financially incentivized individual strategic decision tasks via WeChat social media platform to population preregistered Wuhan University students. find that initial coupled with lock-down City led an uptick altruism, trust, ambiguity aversion downtick aversion. Over remaining samples, we observed all measurements return baseline levels except for